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Eduard Heinrich Henoch

Eduard Heinrich Henoch (1820–1910) was a German pediatrician who directed the Berlin Charité children's clinic for two decades and described the condition now called IgA vasculitis.

Eduard Hitzig

Eduard Hitzig (1838–1907) was a German neurologist and psychiatrist who, with Gustav Fritsch, showed in 1870 that electrical stimulation of a dog's cortex produces movement.

Eduard Strasburger

Eduard Strasburger (1844–1912) was a German plant cytologist, born in Warsaw, who held professorships at Jena and Bonn and established that the cell nucleus carries heredity.

Eduardo A. Groisman

Eduardo A. Groisman is a geneticist and microbiologist, the Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor at Yale since 2010, known for the PhoP/PhoQ magnesium-sensing system of Salmonella.

Eduardo A. Perozo

Eduardo A. Perozo is a Venezuelan-trained biophysicist at the University of Chicago known for structural studies of ion channels, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2023.

Eduardo Blumwald

Eduardo Blumwald is a plant cell biologist and Distinguished Professor at UC Davis, known for engineering salt tolerance in plants, including salt-tolerant tomatoes, and for nitrogen-fixing cereals.

Éduardo Bruera

Éduardo Bruera, born in Argentina in 1955, is a medical oncologist who has led palliative medicine at MD Anderson since 1999 and created the widely used Edmonton Symptom Assessment System.

Eduardo E. Benarroch

Eduardo E. Benarroch is a neurologist and Professor of Neurology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, known for his 1993 definition of the central autonomic network and work on autonomic disorders.

Eduardo H. Rapoport

Eduardo H. Rapoport, full name Eduardo Hugo Rapoport, was an Argentine ecologist (1927–2017) whose Areografía helped found macroecology and gave his name to Rapoport's rule.

Eduardo Marbán

Eduardo Marbán is a Cuban-born American cardiologist and cardiac electrophysiologist, Executive Director of the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai since 2007, known for cardiosphere-derived cells.

Eduardo Moreno (biologist)

Eduardo Moreno Lampaya, born in Madrid in 1970, is a Spanish biologist and Senior Group Leader at the Champalimaud Centre in Lisbon, known for super-competitor cells and fitness fingerprints.

Eduardo P. C. Rocha

Eduardo P. C. Rocha (born 1972) is a Portuguese computational biologist who studies bacterial genome evolution, leading the CNRS–Institut Pasteur Génétique des génomes unit since 2023.

Eduardo Slatopolsky

Eduardo Slatopolsky (1934–2024) was an Argentine-born American physician-scientist at Washington University School of Medicine who defined the modern understanding of secondary hyperparathyroidism in chronic kidney disease.

Eduardo Tolosa

Eduardo Tolosa is a Spanish neurologist and emeritus professor at the Universitat de Barcelona, known for the LARGO and delayed-start rasagiline trials in Parkinson's disease.

Edvard Ingjald Moser

Edvard Ingjald Moser is a Norwegian neuroscientist at NTNU in Trondheim, known for discovering grid cells and sharing the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Edward A. Adelberg

Edward A. Adelberg (1920–2009) was an American microbial geneticist at Berkeley and Yale, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1971, known for discovering F-duction in E. coli.

Edward A. Boyse

Edward A. Boyse (1923–2007) was a British-born American immunologist at Sloan-Kettering who discovered the TL and Ly lymphocyte antigen systems and championed umbilical cord blood as a stem-cell source.

Edward A. Clark

Edward A. Clark is an American immunologist and professor emeritus at the University of Washington, known for work on B cells and helping characterize CD20, CD22, and CD40.

Edward A. Dennis

Edward A. Dennis is an American biochemist at the University of California San Diego who has studied phospholipase A2 for over five decades and led the LIPID MAPS lipidomics consortium.

Edward A. Doisy

Edward Adelbert Doisy was an American biochemist who isolated the estrogens estrone, estriol, and estradiol, and shared the 1943 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for vitamin K.

Edward A. Fisher

Edward A. Fisher is an American cardiovascular researcher who holds the Leon H. Charney Professorship at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, known for work on HDL and atherosclerosis regression.

Edward A. Gaensler

Edward A. Gaensler was an American thoracic surgeon and pulmonary physiologist in Boston who founded the forerunner of Boston University's Pulmonary Medicine Section and helped introduce lung function measurement into clinical medicine.

Edward A. Neuwelt

Edward A. Neuwelt (died 2026) was an American neurosurgeon and neuro-oncologist at Oregon Health & Science University who pioneered osmotic blood-brain barrier disruption to deliver chemotherapy to brain tumors.

Edward Abraham

Edward Abraham is an American pulmonary and critical care physician-scientist known for sepsis research, who led the 2005 ADDRESS trial and served as a medical school dean.

Edward Abraham (English biochemist)

Sir Edward Penley Abraham (1913–1999) was an English biochemist at Oxford who purified penicillin, proposed its beta-lactam structure, and led the discovery of cephalosporin C, giving his royalties to charity.

Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer

Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer (1850–1935) was an English physiologist who, with George Oliver, discovered the pressor action of adrenal extract in 1894 and proposed the name "insuline".

Edward Arthur Steinhaus

Edward Arthur Steinhaus (1914–1969) was an American insect pathologist and microbiologist who founded modern insect pathology, establishing its first laboratory, journal, and society, and becoming the first dean at UC Irvine.

Edward B Ziff

Edward B Ziff, also known as Edward Benjamin Ziff, is an American molecular biologist and Professor Emeritus at NYU, known for work on cancer genes and AMPA receptor trafficking.

Edward B. Benedict

Edward B. Benedict (c. 1896/1897–1974) was an American surgeon and endoscopist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard, known for his reviews of endoscopy and studies of benign esophageal disease.

Edward B. Garon

Edward B. Garon is an American medical oncologist at UCLA, where he directs the Thoracic Oncology Program and led the pivotal pembrolizumab trials in non-small-cell lung cancer.